web-ui-ap-admin package
Information on this package is covered here.
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Package
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Description
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License
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web-ui-ap-admin
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Web pages and controller for access point administration
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Devicescape Software, Inc.
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Summary
The web-ui-ap-admin package is an example Web application that uses the Web UI framework. The example application provides dynamically-generated Web pages for getting and setting values on the Devicescape Reference AP runtime configuration and for reporting runtime status information.
Although the Web application framework can be used to develop any kind of Web-based application, the framework has built-in support for data retrieval and configuration of a target AP device built with the Devicescape Reference AP.
Web-based monitoring and configuration of the AP is accomplished through interaction with key components of the AP runtime software such as the device management agent (device-mgmt-agent package, device-mgmt-agent-ap package) and clustering mechanisms (clustering package).
Web pages for basic functionality of the Reference AP are provided by the web-ui-ap-admin package. This package includes most of the Web UI pages.
Web UI components for some optional packages are implemented separately as extensions to make it easy to exclude or include standard functionality (along with the associated Web UIs) during development.
For example, the Web page for Local Authentication Server (LAS) are in the web-ui-las package. When you want LAS functionality on the AP, you build both the las package and the web-ui-las package into your root file system (RFS) image. This will provide LAS functionality on the AP and an associated Web UI page, along with its Online Help.
Usage
Starting/Stopping the Web Server (mini-httpd)
Use the command line interface (CLI) to get status and stop/start the Web server (mini-httpd) on the access point as follows. (The Web server is used by the web-ui-ap-admin package and related runtime Web UI packages)
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Command
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Description
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get web-server status
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Returns status of the Web server (up is on, down is off).
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set web-server status down
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Stops the Web server.
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set web-server status up
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Starts the Web server.
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Developer Guide on Using the Web UI Framework
For detailed information on working with the Web UI Framework, see the Web UI Framework topic in the Developer Guide.
For information on how to build an enterprise or reduced footprint AP, see the topic on "Creating RFS Images for the Reference AP" in the Developer Guide.
For information on working with the runtime Administration application, see the Administrator Guide.
Building the Package
Follow standard instructions for building userspace packages in the Devicescape Developer Guide topic on "Building the Packages", see subtopic: "Building a Userspace Package from a Source RPM"
Building the web-ui-ap-admin source package produces the following runtime packages at a minimum:
- web-ui-ap-admin
- web-ui-ap-admin-help
Licensing
Devicescape Software, Inc.
Related Packages
Required
clearsilver package
web-ui-framework package (development host package only; not a target package)
web-ui-services package (development host package; not a target package)
Suggested
clustering package
web-ui-ntp (The source package for this binary package is web-ui-ap-admin-ext)
web-ui-clustering
web-ui-las
web-ui-snmp
